Word: instincts
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...form been so commercially successful and artistically exhilarating. Moreover, at a time when mass art is fragmented, even divisive -- when virtually no species of entertainment has universal appeal -- the hip, comic ingenuity and emotional breadth of the best cartoons reunite the consumers of popular culture with Hollywood's surest instinct to please in a vast Saturday matinee of the spirit...
...romance that grows between Berlin and Helena the same way. They edge toward connection tentatively, in full but unspoken awareness of the difficulties of their relationship. Nor is the suspicion of mad and more deadly passions visited upon either of them in the manner of Fatal Attraction or Basic Instinct. Evil is what it is supposed to be in fictions of this kind, an outsider, and the business of the narrative is to restore order in the community that evil has disordered. In other words, Jennifer 8 is adult entertainment in the best, traditional sense of the term...
...race but also that voters longed for a candidate who had thought long enough about the problems to formulate detailed plans and talk specifics. (The campaign thus marked a rare convergence of man and moment: Clinton is a born policy wonk who spawns 5- and 6-point plans as instinctively as other pols reach out for hands to shake.) Sheer dogged persistence kept him slogging past low points at which many another campaigner would have given up. In New Hampshire, when the Governor's campaign looked like a collapsing balloon, an aide reported that "his instinct is always...
...some comics, the subject of Limbaugh and Pat Buchanan is as fertile as Bush-Quayle. Will Durst, who refers to Limbaugh as "Jabba the Talk Show Host," says, "Buchanan had a killer instinct; he wasn't afraid to lick up the blood. But Rush leaves it there and just chews off the flesh." Harry Shearer, the actor (This Is Spinal Tap, The Simpsons) and host of his own politico-comic radio show, is kinder, gentler to Limbaugh: "This country runs on personality, not on ideas. I think if Rush were spouting diametrically opposed ideas, he'd be just as popular...
...University to increase recruitment efforts toward lower-income minority students is in no way sentencing the University to pay for a disparity in the educational footing of minorities. To say this would be to say the only motivation for recruiting those students is "white guilt," or some charitable instinct to help the less fortunate, when, in fact, there are a multitude of other reasons why the University should pursue diversity amongst its applicants...